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man. I've never seen flimsier photo
walls than this one. These are these are made out of
drywall. This is drywall photos just
need. To blow on them lightly anyway.
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Alpha, What's up? Great reach my intro.
What was that? Do you want me to reach your
intro? I am going to give you a solid
10 out of 10. Whoa.
I did all around just. No, that's that's what.
That's condescending, what you just did.
Wait, wait. No.
Oh my. It's condescending.
No, no, no, let's believe that it's condescending.
It's condescending and that. AFAM is no longer the what did I
say in the intro? He's no longer that.
He's just AFAM now. I didn't mean it to be that OK,
Genuinely, I was, I, I actually, I was just going to give it the
10 out of 10. Genuinely, I can't even say what
else I was going to give it is. Cap as cap BMI.
Oh, man, that's a music joke. This is you.
You know what? I'm turning this on you.
This is you turning the audience against me.
Sam, I I see what you're doing. You're you're weaponizing your
audience. You're weaponizing the fanbase.
Wow. Thank you, Sam.
Do you guys see what's happening here?
Do you see the gas lighting that's happening?
Can you just? Tell the fanbase how you're
doing. They're not.
They're not here for all this runs you're doing.
I I'm doing fine. Yeah, thanks for asking.
First, I'd like to start this speech about my.
Why you so saucy by? Just saying what it's.
Saucy. I don't like it.
That used to be my tag anyway. No genuinely I'm doing fine.
This week has flown by but been super creative.
I'm working on a bunch of projects, music projects for
sure. So you know, that's been keeping
me going. So that's just what I have
really indulged myself. In making music last week, you
said you weren't into doing much of that.
I, I know it's, you see, it's just a, it's a, it's a yo-yo
like of emotions. Like I was going through a bit
of a, I was going to like a bit of a identity crisis where, you
know, I feel like I'm interested in so many different things and
just going through so many different like paths.
But I all, I forget that like what brought me into like this
music space was like production, you know, that's, that's, that's
who I am. I'm a, I'm a producer, you know,
I had to remember that. Like that's, you know, despite,
OK. Like I love, like, I love this
podcast and stuff. Like I love managing the artists
that I manage. But like, I am a music producer
and I, and I was like, I need to get back to basics.
This is what I'm here for. This is, this is what I've been,
this is what I'm passionate about music production.
And so, yeah, I, I, I decided, you know, I'm going to like,
really, really go hard on the music production aspect of
things. And that's been going great.
How was your week? I'm doing, how am I doing?
But Speaking of confused, I've also been this week, I've been,
I think I've, I've realized that I'm doing entirely too much in
terms of production. Like I've been making, I've been
working at least trying to be creative, but then my, my
creativity has been going in so many different directions.
And it's, it's like in just terms of the beats, one of the
things I like to pride myself on and not in a proud, full,
boastful way, but one of the things I pride myself on is I'm,
I'm able to do different genres rather decently, I guess.
But now how I've, I guess I've been trained since I started is
I didn't focus specifically on one like genre and beat it down
to its death. Like I'd do an Afrobeat
instrumental or beat one today and then like right, right after
that I'm jumping into like hardcore EDM and then after that
I'm going into like lofi music. So that's, that's beneficial
because I'm able to tap into so many different energies and many
different, different energies, different sounds and, and you
know, zones and spaces. But then the problem with that
is I just get very disillusioned in terms of what, which
direction to go in my release. So that's what I've been bugged
about this whole week. It's just, I have just, I have
so much music sitting around that in so many different camps,
it's hard to figure out how to move forward.
And I think there's a lot of artists who struggle with that
too. So I don't know.
I can't figure out. Trying to figure out how how to
go about that. It's all about figuring out how
to harness that because I get it man, like you, but you have to
harness that like that chaos in some way and like direct it and
get it for. Sure.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, The the, the, the, I
guess the the problem comes in because I feel like I feel like
being multi genre is is like a superpower.
So I feel like if I stick to one, if I stick to here, if I
stick to one genre, I feel like I'm, I'm giving up a lot of my,
myself if it feels like this kryptonite in front of me.
But I guess it all it all boils down to discipline.
Yes. Boils down to discipline.
So yeah, that's that's been that.
Apart from that, I mean, I've been following what's been going
on in the country still. Yeah, things are things are.
I don't say things are mellowing out, but it's it's just doesn't
seem to be as heated as it was the past couple of weeks now.
But. Things are still going on.
Things aren't mellowed out. It's just that their tactics,
are they, they've been by day, I mean the enemy, they've been
really implementing their tactics.
And it was felt a lot like on on Tuesday when they when they
infiltrated the peaceful protests with all their goons
and everything. And, you know, it's just leaving
such a bad taste in people's mouths because, like, it's
really, like, hijacked what the protest was about initially.
And these tactics of theirs have made, like, our generation have
to kind of like, OK, let's pivot and let's figure out different
ways of protest. That's why things feel like
they've mellowed out, but they haven't.
I feel like in people's hearts, in people's minds as at the core
of it all is still the primary focus.
Yeah. The fight is still on.
So yeah. And yeah, I mean, not that we're
here. Like that's how Tuesday went.
And it's just disappointing, man, that like our own
government can pay goons to, like, destroy the their own
city. Like it was like, think about
how ridiculous that is. It's, it's, it's crazy.
It was funny seeing and again, I, I don't know if it's true,
but then it just the, the thought of it, it's funny seeing
the goons coming out saying we've not been paid like.
Yeah, I saw that as well man bro like pay your own.
Goons like what to pay your goons?
Pay your goons at least. At least give them the money if
they're going to destroy the anyway.
Me, if I'm me, if I'm a goon, I'm taking that money.
Are you suing? Can you sue?
If you're a goon? Would you sue?
You can't. But you take you take that money
and then you just don't do anything like this agreed to be
paid. It's like, you know how they
usually pay people like during election they'll be like.
Yeah, or they'll give me. 1000 vote.
I'll take that money. Give me 2000 the way.
Yeah, give me the 1000 vote. But I'll still vote the way I
want to vote. You know what I mean?
Free money. So unfortunately that's what
happened on Tuesday. Thursday was also very muted.
But I think the biggest like success is was today when we
record this podcast, which is Sun.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
And obviously, you know, like it was planned, it was always
planned that today would be the day in which they we did the the
Shujaz Memorial concert, which was always meant to honour the
Kenyans who were killed during the protests.
And, you know, it's been it's been difficult like, because I
feel like I've just been seeing a lot of funerals and stuff like
that for the people who've died. And it's sad.
But ultimately these are these are people who died for the
country. These are the true Shujas for
real. And so, yeah, seeing that,
seeing, seeing the concerts. Go ahead in the Hulu park.
Memorial concert. That's Sunday.
Yeah, it's today. Yeah, that that's today.
Like that's what happened today. And today's Wednesday.
No, today's Sunday. No, today's Wednesday.
Why are you doing this? OK, OK.
Actually, it's happening. We're breaking the 4th wall.
So when we do this podcast, do
we require is this podcast on? When is this are we talking of
like? Wednesday when we're recording,
when we're recording, it's both, it's both.
It's whatever you want it to be. Anyway, she just, yeah, shout
out to the there's a big shout out to the artist who came out.
I mean some of the the likes of of of and it's good to see some
of our like our, our goats. Yes, two of the goats were there
Calligraph Jones and BN. We have Fenna, nameless Octopiz.
Also, you don't think nameless is a is a good?
You said two or no good. The the term goat is kind of now
it's it's been. No, no, no, no, actually like
interesting. Some just said I'm sorry some.
Are stitching you think that? No, I am stitching you up.
You said there are two goats on this list.
So are you saying so you're either saying calligraph BN
nameless or Octopus or one of them or Eric Y Niner.
So Oh my. So you don't think Eric Y Niner
is a good? Oh wow, Sam.
Actually meant M singer. I meant M Singer.
No, I'm talking about. Remember when you had the
conversation about about about the The Who is the the GOAT?
Like we we had put calligraph bien and and Nyashinski.
So that's why I'm saying 2 two of them.
That's what I'm talking about. Anyway, we had we had nameless
was there octopizo charisma. I'm going to break the 4th wall
again, but it's raining. So if you guys hear rain in the
background, my bad. Juliani raining by Wednesday.
No, it's not. It's raining on.
It is raining on the day we recorded it.
Ericoinaina Sarabi Band Graffiti Mutoria Was there.
DJ Double Trouble? Not to be confused with DJ
Triple Trouble Field Marshall's band Jerry, which is really
interesting. DJ Lord.
Lord Do. How do you pronounce that Lord
the box MC Is that actually how you say it?
I don't know why. I said.
That I don't know why you do that either.
I think it's Punjab and MC Jorah, you had mentioned like
it's really interesting seeing MCS as performers.
Why? Why is that an interesting thing
to you? This is just a breaking the 4th
war, I said because I mentioned about seeing MCS prior to the US
recording the podcast. So this whole podcast is just
breaking the 4th I'm. So sorry.
Like we're human beings, bro. Like it's, it's, we'll have,
we'll have more. Future because people listen
people listening to this are like wait what did afam say that
I. Didn't I?
Didn't. Oh, my bad.
Yeah. So you were having a
conversation before. Oh, this is horrible.
This is so bad. Anyway, shout out to everyone
who came out and performed. It would have been really good
to go for that on Sunday Salve. I'm so sorry.
Continue OK, no, but you know, like honestly, shout out to all
these people. I'm really happy when Jerry
though, like Jerry is really like.
Just like she's climbing up, yeah.
She's climbing up the ladder and that's, it's really good to see,
man. I feel like for me it's like,
yeah, mutorial as well. I feel like that song OTD is
like that's the catalyst that just like put everything in
motion. Fire.
Yeah, so Charlotte in July, obviously Charisma had to be
there. Charisma has been one of the
most outspoken artists like during this period.
And obviously BN, Calligraph Jones, you know, Fenna,
Nameless, those are names which actually I've also been very
vocal to be honest. It will have been good to see.
It will be good to see S to Seoul up there like this will
be. This will be a good one for them
to come together, right? We saw, we saw BN, we saw BN.
I'm saying together if I see like all three, only if I see
BN, it's enough of it. You see?
You see all of them. OK, Yeah, it's all right, man.
But yeah, no, this is really. Good, that sounds mean.
Sorry, I'm joking. This is no, no, I mean, this is
really cool. It's cool to see our artists
come out and support. I do think that they, I mean, I
wish there were more names, but I do understand maybe short
notice and there's a lot that goes into planning this kind of
things individually as if you're treating yourself as a business.
So but it would be cool to see like a lot more names on their
names who have been outspoken about not just now, but then
like in previous times about the government and all that
business. But anyway, hey, we can't we
can't just say, you know, we want more.
This is like really, it's a really good thing that happens,
so, and they made it free too, so.
So, yeah, and, and, and obviously the, the main, the
main, main point of it all, to memorialize the people who lost
their lives, unfortunately, you know, may they rest in peace.
And yeah, that's, that's just the most important part.
But that's just seeing the videos.
I saw them playing like unboggable and like everybody in
the crowd singing it. And I'm just like unboggable.
I I think, bro, it's safe to say that's like one of Kenya's
biggest songs ever. It's in the top three.
And it's not three, like in terms of country music.
Yeah, and it's not 3. Like that song is so impactful.
All these years later, it's still so entrenched in Kenyan
culture. We played it last week and I I
noticed this. Yeah, this is just a, this is a
side like production technical talk.
But I noticed it's in mono. Like I've not had unbolgable in
stereo. I don't really exist anywhere in
stereo except probably the producers.
What do you call it on DSPS? It's in mono and that was that
was I was really confused about that.
But anyway, anyway, petition to replace it with the stereo
version, please. Thank you.
All right. Yeah.
So, so I guess, you know, we can, I think we can, we can, we
can talk about a few. So, you know, this past few
weeks we've, we've really been hyper focused and the whole
country has been on what's been happening, you know, with our
politics, so much so that nothing has been moving.
People have barely been releasing music and stuff like
that. But I've noticed this week
people have been releasing a little bit more music.
There's, there's a little bit, there's a little bit more
conversation outside of what's happening, which is not to say
that the main focus isn't still to like get these politicians
out of here. But you know, life continues.
Life does continue. So one thing, one thing, one
thing that just happened this past few weeks that we, we
really didn't even, we didn't even have the time to like talk
about it was camp. Did you see the news with camp
recently? Some more news with camp.
Yeah. So I mean, you can enjoy it, but
basically it's the dance still continues.
I guess with these guys it does. The dance is ever going to stop.
So I don't think so. So because there's so much money
out of our money that's involved.
So we, we talked about Camp in the last podcast we had that was
focused on music. We talked about them holding
they held like a press conference where they awarded
like BN with with money and stuff like that.
So Camp apparently have been granted permission by the High
Court to continue its operations.
Obviously we've reported about how Kobo granted POV Risk the
sole right to collect royalties as the sole CMO in the country,
and they gave them a contract for a year to do so.
Camp said. Nah, bro, listen, run that back.
That shit's that's just not right.
It's not right Michael, it's not right.
Anybody who watches F1 will understand what I mean.
So essentially for so this follows the decision to
challenge Kobo's move to license a single CMO.
So we, so this is a quote by, I want to say Angela Dambuki,
where she says we are pleased to announce that on 24th June 2024,
Camp obtained a stay against the irregular and unlawful decision
by Kobo licensing the POV risk formerly known as Prisk as their
sole CMO. So essentially I'm just going to
like summarize, they are essentially claiming that Kobo
choosing to license Prisk as the sole CMO is actually unlawful.
And it's, it's, it's, it was, it was not, what's the word?
It wasn't done with like. It wasn't above board,
essentially. And people feel like, yeah,
people feel like it's just a ploy to kind of like eat more of
the money and stuff like that. Because like we said, an audit
was done for Prisk and it was found to be the CMO that
distributed the least money in 2023.
So there's definitely issues there some how do you feel about
like camp, like fighting back? I feel like camp, I think camp
have some really good points like in their argument you, how
do you feel about it? Yeah.
If we're talking about argument, yes, they in the recent past
have I mean, and I've seen support for camp from some
people in the industry that we would consider a little bit more
knowledgeable rather than and I've not seen much support to
the other two, Pavrisk and MCSK. But in all honesty, I do feel
like artists at this point, we should I, I, I love what the
parallel. I would like to make a parallel
with what's happening in like the country, like artists.
We, we, we should all seriously band together and try and figure
this out now. We should I mean, I need to
occupy one of these places at some point because.
Some, some. You're speaking the language
right now. This is ridiculous.
Yeah. It's what we're doing currently
in the country is amazing because we've seen how how just
banding together and demanding for what should be to happen
from the people who've entrusted this too.
We need to do that in the music industry.
We need to take these guys to task the days of MCSK paying out
12 shillings for the whole year or 100 shillings 1200 for the
whole year when we know that that isn't right.
Like it, if we let that keep going on, it's just on us.
So this whole thing with with Kekobo and them saying, OK, do
this person can have the licenses and they take it back.
No, you can't have it. Let's give it to this other
guys. And then now this other guys
come and complain like this whole thing, this shouldn't be
how how our royalty collection is run.
This shouldn't be how the music industry, this shouldn't be the
reputation of the Kenyan music industry.
But unfortunately that's all we see except now the little
pockets of people who are doing distribution with other, other
companies and mostly companies from outside, not companies from
within Kenya, right? So we do need to do that.
I think, I think I, I would really honestly charge the
people who and we might need to follow the, the blueprints too.
Like everyone just needs to band together in no matter what
happens. And we've seen, we've seen other
industries do this, like even the, the, the medics, like, you
know, they, they do the interns and everything like going on
strike. Honestly, Sam, there is so much
money being finessed. We did the math, bro, in that
one podcast. There's so much, the, the only
reason they're fighting tooth and nail for this whole CMO
thing is because there's just so much money that that's owed to
us creatives and artists that bro, we just can't sit by and
watch them, like watch them like this.
Clamour for it. Yeah, while we are getting like,
drops, yeah, man. Like artists, producers, whoever
you are. Like we really need to start
banding together and purposefully working to ensure
that the music industry works how it's.
Supposed to work, Sam. It's so embarrassing that the
international community is even taking note of the mess that's
going on with our CMOS because listen, recently the the CEO of
IFPI actually issued a statement over what's happening with our
CMO like Saga and I'm reading now in a joint statement issued
by IFPICEO. So basically IFPI are the guys
who you know, the guys who usually do the yearly report
over what's. Around them, yeah.
Yeah, like they give all the statistics what is, is streaming
still the biggest like way music is being confirmed, IFPI have
all the data about that. So they're really a good data
source of what's happening in the music industry.
So anyway, so in a joint statement issued by IFPICEO,
Victoria Oakley and Sizak Director General Gadi Oron, I
hope I've pronounced that well. The two organizations asked
Kekobo to reconsider its decision to award a license to
PAV Risk to collectively manage performance and broadcast rights
as a single window licensor in the country.
The statement continues. In order to protect and ensure
the future sustainability of the music sector in Kenya, we urge
Kakobo to reconsider its decision.
With its rich musical heritage and abundance of diverse and
talented artists, Kenya is one of the leading music markets in
sub-Saharan Africa, the fastest growing recorded music region in
the world. A well functioning and efficient
CM collected collective management system that
effectively manages the rights of music creators and producers
and act actively no and accurately distributes revenues
to them is fundamental to its continued growth and success.
Essentially, they're in line with what Camp is raising in
terms of the concerns about what's happening with this whole
risk and POV risk thing. Yeah, essentially they're also
just kind of agreeing that this whole pub risk thing looks
sketchy. And listen, if, if, if, if, if I
have one thing on their side is data they have.
They know how much money these guys are eating.
They know how much money should be distributed to our artists.
And so for them to come out of the statement, it, it holds a
lot of weight. In fact, I would, I wish we
could talk to the CEO just to find out like the real numbers
because Sam, that's always been one of my biggest like concerns
is that no matter what they tell us, if they tell us that,
remember we came up with a calculation and, and we, we
calculated that it's about 530 million like Kenya shillings to
be collected this year. Like, but even that might not be
an accurate figure like number. Yeah.
So I'd I'd really want to know like what's objectively like
supposed to be collected in Kenya so we know to the extent
of which these people are stealing from us.
So. Once, like if we get that
information and put that out to the people, yeah, If that
doesn't get people going, then I don't know what will at this
point. We need to organize.
We actually need to organize a protest against this, this, this
CMOS. No, I'm more.
Protests no more protest era. While the spirit, yeah, while
the spirit of protesting is still within a of protesting,
yeah, for real, because. Bro anyway bro a protest not OK.
There isn't protest now. Peaceful, of course.
Yeah, a revolt, I guess in the music industry is long overdue.
Like it's long overdue. We should have been doing this
for a while now because this is ridiculous and how they're that
it's been treated. And like I said, for the
international people to to notice that because now if IFPI
noticed that and then now all the other, all the countries
that are sort of tapped into what IFPI is doing and they look
at Kenya's, they mess happened in Kenya.
It's going to deter a lot of people from wanting to invest in
Kenyan music. It might deter a lot of labels
from asking the artists to come and sort of collaborate with
African artists. So it does this.
We report on we report on this a couple of a couple of times and
it might seem very trivial, like OK, they're just infighting.
But it has a lot of implications in the grand.
Like if you look at it on a wider scale, you look at the
bigger picture, there's a lot of implications of us of the
turmoil and just the indecisive nature and the weirdness going
on with just royalty collection and just how music is being
administrated in the country. So we definitely need to get on
track because it's I think it's it's a it's an important part of
the Kenyan music industry gets get into that next level
growing. So yeah, sad that we keep
talking about this though. Sad.
Really annoying. Speaking of, Speaking of the US
getting to, Speaking of us getting to the next level, Sam.
Yeah. When are we going to have a
Kenyan artist like at the BT Awards?
When see I can't really say what I want to say.
Let me see if this is like an PC.
That says everything. That was that was going to come
out. That was that was you almost got
me there. You almost you almost got me.
Put me in trouble. Don't blame me.
No, I mean, that would be great to see, right?
That would be great to see, Yeah.
The last, what was the last, actually, we need to do some
research. That was don't I don't tell me
the last people we had on BT was Kampala, because that would be
really. Some I will.
I will cry. I will, no.
Maybe somewhere there, maybe, I don't know.
But if it's Kampala Sam, I will break down in tears.
On my knees right now yeah. So I hope I hope we have a name
like I'm pretty sure Saudis. So what there sometime maybe
hopefully praying. But yes, I, I, I think, I think
we're getting there. I think we have a few names that
will potentially. Might still have a way to get us
on that, if I'm being honest, but but it's doable.
It's doable in the foreseeable future.
I see it, I see it. There has to be a lot of work
done. I don't sound like a like a
it's. It's it's def.
Pessimistic, but it's doable. No, no, it's definitely doable.
So basically, Sam, did you, did you pay attention to the BT
Awards that happened last week? I paid attention to it, but I
didn't, I, I didn't give I, it was it, my attention wasn't
specifically on the BT Awards. It was just more about the talk
around it. So I guess I, I probably should
have done a little bit more research, but then it was more
about the talk around it, you know, the tribute to Usher and
just the nature of how the whole thing went down, the apparent
lack of male performance performances.
But yeah. To be honest, to be honest not.
What you're talking about? To be honest, I'm, I'm not
really too into like the BT awards anymore.
I, I feel like there was a time in my life when the BT Awards
held such a big part of my, my just even what my identity as a
human being. Like if I didn't watch the BT
Awards, who are my but nowadays I don't feel that anymore.
But anyway, I I want to say they, you know, yeah, they but
but they did acknowledge a few African artists.
And this year three African artists were notably won awards,
the artist in question being Tyler Thames and Mahadzi.
So obviously Tyler, bro, Tyler is getting the push of a
lifetime. Like so Tyler.
Yeah, yeah, bro. She she better have some shit in
the talk though, like for this second album that I'm sure she's
working on and thinking about. Right now, her sophomore album
has to it really she can't she can't hit us with a sophomore
slump. The the music industry does not
care. It's.
Brutal. I I can really just be working
on. Some anxiety.
She has some. Proper music she needs.
She needs another water. But that's the thing though, you
can't make a delicious hit, though.
You can't get another water. You can't make another water.
That's the problem with being an artist.
Like people think it's just like, oh, just make another
water and you'll be fine. How you can't.
And then the, the, the, the, the biggest crossroad is like, OK,
I, I need to also evolve. But evolving sometimes alienates
your core fan base. So like even that's what's kind
of happening with the Remmer right now.
Although I must say, me, I'm a fan.
Me, I'm a fan of what you're doing.
I stepped away from that poppy sound.
Like Duck, I like that stuff. It's good.
It's different. Villain before her eyes.
But but some, there's a lot of people who don't like the
direction that Rama is going on. And that's the that's the fear.
And for Tyler, Tyler can't because she's very new.
So she can't do what Rama is doing.
Grandma has had like five years to establish himself.
Tyler has only had one year. So it's and it's it's hard, but
like and it's hard. And then when she releases her
project, everyone is like like, oh, all the songs sound the same
and stuff like this. It's like, what do you even do,
man? It's anyway this?
Is some of the pains that a new artist have to has has to has to
face like hey, you came into the game this figure it out.
She's she's still relatively new, even though she's kind of
been doing music for a while, she's still relatively new.
So let's give her time, man. That's that's not true.
But shout out to her man. Congratulations, she won.
So she won, yeah, she she won best international act over Asha
K, Ira, star vocalistic Aya Nakamura, BK Cleoso, Carol
Conquer Ray and even Ray. She beat Ray and Tiakola.
Bro and song could do so much for you.
It can change your life. Literally the viewer's choice.
Best new international act went to Mahadzi who beat Tyler, ICU,
Shay vibes, Bella, Crystal Duques, Holly Ji, Jungali and
Oram. I really need to get more into
like reggaeton and stuff. And then the other African
winner was Thames who I believe won gave me.
OK, well first best new artist went to Tyler.
That's huge because she beat out 41 four bats Ira star boss
Mandino Friday, October London and sexy Red.
Sexy Red must have been fuming, especially considering Sexy Red
perform and she must have been like what?
Everyone you're going to make me perform and then yeah, everyone
expected. But I would have given it to
Friday though. I know that's controversial, but
given Friday that. I haven't had, I haven't heard
much about Friday ever since the whole thing with.
Oh, I have, I have. I like I like his music, so I've
been following him. Yeah, but to us on that list,
but to us mainstreamers, like we don't see him on our like,
because I can't say I'm a Friday fan.
I'm just a casual. Like we don't get, we don't see
him on our, like he doesn't pop up on our timelines.
Yeah, Tyler does a lot. And sexy red but sexy red must
be fuming. But shout out to Tyler.
So Tyler won two so far. So there was also the Doctor
Bobby Jones best gospel slash inspirational awards and terms
one with her song Me and you bro.
She beat out people like Kirk Franklin and CeCe Winans
Franklin. First of all, was was was
nominated twice and he and she still beat him.
This is some heavy heaters that she she beat out.
So shout out to Thames. Let's see.
And the other is there another one?
Oh, this is cap. I'm sorry, this isn't really
like music, but listen, best movie went to Bob Marley for one
love listen. I love Bob Marley as much as the
next person, and I watched that movie, but that movie.
Was the new one best movie? The.
New the latest Bob Marley movie. I'm so sorry.
That I've seen so many of them. That I'm sorry bro.
It won over Spider Man, Across the spider, Vice the spider.
Vice, I'm sorry. See, see, see, that's see.
That's wild. Now we need to, we need to stop
that. I'm sorry, that's blasphemous.
It wasn't, bro. I'm sorry.
I listen. I love Bob Marley as much as the
next person, but like, that movie was that movie was.
Over the scoping, please. Are you afraid?
You're afraid they're going to do something to you.
They're going to try to cancel me, man, because I have dreads,
man. They're going to be like, brah,
cut those dreads. Hey, they're Rastas.
They're Rastas. Oh, they are Rastas.
Sorry, we were told not to call them dreads.
How? Am I collecting you and I don't
have any? Those are the African winners
of. Those are the African winners of
from BET. Next time we want to see names
like BN. What's the Kenyan name, man?
Want to see Bien? Want to see Caroon?
You want to see Alpha Mephena? You know, I don't know.
Don't mean I'm just throwing names out there, you know?
Just. Yeah, you know.
Just part of it, Yeah. I mean, I mean, let's do music,
man. And I I I wish that for you, my
guy. I wish that for you, my friend.
I wish nothing but the best for you.
What did Adele say? Never mind.
I'll find Someone Like You. I found out something.
But the best? I just want to tell you guys I
found out some very interesting information about Adele.
But anyway. I'm not ashamed to say it.
I'm not ashamed to say it though.
I won't say it though. But I'm not ashamed to say it,
no. No, it's OK.
It's OK. It's.
Cool. I'm standing on.
I'm standing on business. I'm standing on my square.
You can knock me out of that square.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Standing on it.
The last thing we should talk about before music, before
music, before the last thing I saw blankets and wine was was
was postponed. So it was, yeah, it was supposed
to happen this Sunday. But obviously they said that
they weren't sure because of security concerns and some roads
would be closed here and then stuff like that.
So it looks like it's been pushed to the 28th of July.
So I mean that's not too that's three weeks from now.
So that's not too bad. So I'm sure all ticket holders.
Are just some more time to. Prepare appointed.
It does. I think it's OK.
I think yeah, I think this Saturday I think is not bad.
Let me see who do you know who was scheduled to be on this week
on this? On the line up.
This month, yeah, the line up. On the blankets line up, line up
Yeah, I can see we have Yaba, Sun IP, because that's Sun IP.
Tandy, where is she? It's kind of been disappearing.
Nikita Kerring, we have Dagos, yeah, Bensol something Soweto
from South Africa. I wonder if he's from Soweto.
I mean that's just and then we have Savara and I'm sure there's
going to be like other like I don't say smaller to minimize
them, but then so. This and this and this and this
and. Line up so.
This and line up. This and line up man yeah, so.
Listen, you, I'm not seeing how many fam when I look at this
line up. So when I look at these line
ups, I don't see so many hip hop acts.
That's like a thing like we don't have a lot of hip hop
acts. It's just a lot of Afro beats,
yeah. But hip hop isn't like big big
like. That it's not yeah, we need to
have that composition at some point because.
It's only niche. It's very niche.
Like to like specific audiences, Yeah.
Back then hip hop used to be really cool, like it was the
Tanzania and Kenya, like there's some good hip hop coming out.
But then now it's just it's so quiet.
I mean, someone needs to start a riot.
Someone needs to Kendrick Kendrick the game and start a
riot in the Kenyan hip hop scene.
You can do that. Some you can do be the.
Producer who sparks you have actually thought about that I've
actually thought in fact this is this is embarrassing, but I've
actually D I've deemed a couple of artists with that specific
angle like listen the Kenyan game yeah the Kenyan game needs
to be needs to be turned upside its head.
Sadly, I don't think they are the.
People who would deliver that message really well would be
Kanakili Hippie. Yeah, but it needs to be like a,
it needs to be like a spark. It needs to be a, a, a very big
kerfuffle, like a, like a talked about thing where artists stop
jumping into, Yeah, artists stop jumping into, into, into.
No, let me. Let me drop some buzz.
I know who I target, but I wouldn't say I know who I would.
Target on the podcast. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I can't give everybody all myself.
It's keeping information. Another way in music you are.
Complaining about gatekeeping and here you are gatekeeping.
More breaking of the four musics.
These four walls are so flimsy man.
I've never seen flimsier 4 walls than this one.
These are. These are made out of drywall.
This is drywall. Photos just need to just need to
blow. On them lightly, anyway.
Oh, that pause music. Anyway, don't look at me like.
That new music, man, New music moving there's.
Been a lot of music. That has come out there.
Yeah. There's been a lot of music.
Of course, we're still in the era of the protest, protest era.
So there's a lot of music that's very protest based, protest
themed. We have I don't, I, I, if you,
if you, if I miss out a couple, please put them.
I want to put those ones in the spotlight 1st and then we get
into the rest. Whip Zazakayo by It's Deco and
fancy fingers, of course. Zakah is the nickname of Yeah,
let's see Freedom by Yani again based around that theme we do
have. Willie Paul has a song in that
also. It's just a special outside.
I like it when the younger, the younger artists chime in on
their opinion, which is really cool.
I've I've seen some really creative.
There are people who are doing creative things out there with
just the whole the whole protest music.
But that's cool. Yeah.
But apart from that, we have a couple of drops Brooklyn boys
released into that. Let's see, Let's see.
Let's see, Let's see, let's see, let's see.
He's going to run through them quick.
Parotti Tiami official banner with Tiba.
We have all with Sam Anami. Feel free to chime in whenever
you can. I'm, I'm, I'm just going through
the long, long. Method you're going through
everything. OK, so for me, I listen to to
Chase by zero, Sufuri YBW Smith and Sean MMG.
That's that classic classic urban tone sound.
I'm also listening to Tajirisha Make yourself very rich or
actually I think they were saying that make this girl very
rich. Anyway sound craft spoiler and
tipsy G shout out to them. More urban tone for your head
top. There was also killer Siku by
master VK and Iano ranking. There was Samanami by Ori.
Shout out to Ori, I think she's new ish so shout out to her.
There was Zakayo Shuka by Master VK making the total number of
songs that came out this week with the name Zakayo in them
too. There was Why you rude by
blocker beats Hiribai and Jiggy Yo.
I'm always down to listen to some Hiribai production.
Man Hiribai has been a staple since EA Wave.
Oh my God, when's the last time somebody said?
SoundCloud days. Legendary, Legendary, legendary.
Yeah. For me, that's kind of all I
listen to this week. It's good to see people are
starting to release more music, though.
Yeah. I mean, it's not much, but then
it's something. Yeah, it's something.
It's something. Outside now.
For me, bro, I think the song that I'd like to highlight this
week just also because it's still within the themes of what
everybody's thinking about right now, would be to Mechoka by
Keithan. Because actually, genuinely,
we're tired. We are very tired with this
current regime in government. And I like, I like Keithan's.
I like Keithan's. I like his approach.
I like his creativity. He obviously posted that video
of him making the beat with the instrument and stuff like that.
Shout out to him. Yeah.
Sam, did you?
What did you think of the song? It's cool.
I mean, we're definitely tired
to me, Chaka. We're also tired getting to my
wit end with all this Kobo drama to me, Chaka.
Yeah, but that's someone needs to make a different song for
that. Yeah, it's cool.
Kitan is obviously a he has a lot of support and he's a well
loved artist so it's it's good to see.
Oh he's well loved. I went through the comments and
everybody was just like in support.
So shout out to Kitan. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's built. I think he's built.
He's built his people, which is really good to do as an artist.
So shout out to him for doing that.
Yeah. So this is Kitan with Tumay
Choka I.
That was Keithan with Tummy Choka again, very, very good to
hear some music about what we're dealing with.
And yeah, I'm sure there's going to be more continuing.
But then as people keep releasing music, yeah, it's I
want to see artists back outside, man.
I know it's, I'm not trying to minimize what's going on, but
I'd just like to see more artists get, get back outside
and, and let's, let's, let's, let's keep going and working on
music, trying to release, getting better, aiming for our
collective goal as the music industry in Kenya is to get a BT
award. I don't know if this is the bad
thing to say. No, it's not a.
Collective goal. It's just it's.
Part. It's part and parcel of that.
It's part of it, OK? I'm sorry.
But like, it's not, it's not the
main goal. Our main goal is world
domination, Sam. Everybody needs to be singing.
Of course. Oh, come on.
Yeah, yeah. March into our.
Domination. Yes man.
Anyway. Anyway, shout out to you guys as
always for listening to this fantastic podcast about the
music industry in the East African country called Kenya.
That was episode 84, Man of the 30% podcast.
We've been doing this for a while, Sam.
I feel like I feel like, is that 84 now?
5. This is 84.
This is 84100%. Don't, don't, Don't put your
spirit of doubt into my soul, Sam.
Anyway that. Sounds so serious, I just tried
to. Yeah, because you made me doubt
myself. Of doubt.
Yeah, what did you make me doubt?
Myself, I'm so sorry. I believe in you bro, believe in
you. Speaking of believing in me, I
also believe in you guys listening to this podcast, and I
know I haven't done this in a while, but I want to regale you
guys with my three CS, which I usually push at the end of the
podcast. And those are the first one is
confidence. Guys.
I need you guys to be confident in your art.
Like I know we're coming out of a very difficult period.
I'm in the country and you know, confidence has been at a all
time low and when it comes to like all these other like
creative aspects, but I feel like people are are slowly
getting that confidence to like get back into things and get
into the swing of like creating. So be confidence, please be
confident, please consistency. You all need to be consistent.
Now I understand with what's been happening music wise, like
it was hard to be consistent, especially when your mind is
thinking about other things. But in general I'd love you guys
to just be consistent because you never know, you might
release music at the right time and only because you've been
consistent with releasing music. One person who showed me that
consistency's keys like Sabi Wu. You know, like Sabi Wu is
somebody who's consistently making music and you'd for him,
like I've seen people releasing like music that's protest based,
like like now for example. And that's fine and that's fine.
But you see, because Sabi Wu is always recording music and he's
always ready. Like that's why he released that
song like instantly. And for him, like it's done
wonders, like just being there at the right time.
So shout out to Sabi Wu, shout out to him being consistent and
always work on your craft. I need you guys to every day at
least do something small. Even if it's something that
takes 5 minutes, just do it. If you want to watch like brah,
I was telling some before the podcast I watched a tutorial
that literally changed my production.
Like just because I even if you you've been making music for a
while, always be open to watching a tutorial, learning
something new because you can learn something so small that
goes a long way in changing everything for you.
So always work on your craft and those are the three C's by me.
Yeah, man, I was. Looking for something?
Yeah, I, I, I most of what I say at the end is geared towards
like new artists, but it also could, could work with like
fatigued artists. But this one today is just for
new artists. Like just something to think
about. Imagine if you began when you
said you were going to begin like you would be so much.
Farther. Now than you are so somebody to
think about like the best. Time to start to think about.
The best time to start to start, Don't wait, don't procrastinate.
There's your rhyme, yo. Episode 84 bro.
Thank you for listening to us. We're done.
I don't know. See you guys on episode 85.
Oh my gosh.